Match XR 2023 Matchmaking

29 Nov 2023 | Arabia Creative Campus | Helsinki, Finland

Roderick Kennedy

Founder

Simul

Liverpool, United Kingdom

17 profile visits

Simul is developing the Teleport Protocol, a real-time spatial network protocol for XR.

My organisation

Simul

Simul

Company

Liverpool, United Kingdom

Simul is a research-focused company specializing in realtime rendering, XR and simulation. Customers of Simul include Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Khronos, Microsoft and Sony. Simul is the principle developer of the Teleport XR spatial internet protocol, which enables realtime XR applications to run via the Cloud.
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About me

Roderick Kennedy received his doctorate from Oxford University in Plasma Physics, winning the Culham Thesis Prize for his work. His science-based approach has been the foundation of Simul's technology. Roderick bootstrapped Simul to 27% average growth in 2013-19, with customers including Sony, Microsoft, Bandai Namco, Lockheed, and Boeing. Simul won numerous awards and prizes for its innovation and services, including from TIGA and the British Computer Society.

In 2019, Roderick created what was to become the Teleport protocol: a real-time network protocol for XR applications. A judge for the VR Awards, he is involved with the VRARA, AIXR and Metaverse Standards Forum as part of efforts to ensure an open spatial internet for all.

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Skills

  • Entrepreneur
  • C++
  • Metaverse
  • spatial
  • networking
  • GPU
  • virtual reality
  • Augmented Reality

Interests

  • Internet
  • open protocols
  • Trust and safety

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